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Sep 19, 2014
09/14
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Anthony Gnazzo; Aram Saroyan; Beth Anderson; Brion Gysin; Charles Amirkhanian; Charles Dodge; Clark Coolidge; John Cage; John Giorno; Liam O'Gallagher; Robert Ashley
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Track Listing: Charles Amirkhanian / Just (1972) Charles Amirkhanian / Heavy Aspirations (1973) Clark Coolidge / Preface (1968-excerpt) John Cage / 62 Mesotics Re Merce Cunningham (1971) John Giorno / Give It To Me, Baby (1967) Anthony Gnazzo / The Population Explosion (1969) Charles Dodge / Speech Songs (1973-excerpt: No.1. When I Am With You;) Charles Dodge / Speech Songs (1973-excerpt: No.2. He Destroyed Her Image) Robert Ashley / In Sara, Mencken, Christ And Beethoven There Were Men And...
Topics: Comedy, Compilation, Spoken & Other
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John Cage's obituary on KFPA Radio by Charles Amirkhanian, August 12, 1992. The sudden death of John Cage as he approached his 80th birthday came as a shock to many. The day the message came to KPFA from Laura Kuhn, Cage's assistant, the KPFA News Department held time for this report that was completed by Amirkhanian minutes before it aired. Later the circumstances were explained by Ms. Kuhn who had left the composer's apartment in NYC and reminded Mr. Cage that he needed to complete his list...
Topics: Avantgarde, Documentary, 20th Century Classical
Source: Other Minds
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Jan 17, 2020
01/20
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George Antheil; Vincent Price; Roger Wagner; Vienna Philharmonia Orchestra; George Antheil, Vince Price; Manchester Boddy; Norman Fox, Charles Amirkhanian
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Tracklist: Disc 1: 1. Valentine Waltzes Part 1: George Antheil, Piano 2. Valentine Waltzes Part 2: George Antheil, Piano 3. Valentine Waltzes Part 3: George Antheil, Piano 4. Valentine Waltzes Part 4: George Antheil, Piano 5. Valentine Waltzes Part 5: George Antheil, Piano 6. Valentine Waltzes Part 6: George Antheil, Piano 7. Valentine Waltzes Part 7: George Antheil, Piano 8. Valentine Waltzes Part 8: George Antheil, Piano 9. Valentine Waltzes Part 9: George Antheil, Piano 10. Valentine Waltzes...
Topic: Modern Era
Source: CD
Tracklist: 1. R.B. Smith: Tombeau 2. Hauer: 5 Stücke, Op. 41 - Jazz 3. Cowell: Violin Sonata: Ballade 4. Amirkhanian: Rippling The Lamp 5. Crawford: Violin Sonata - 1. Vibrante Agitato 6. Crawford: Violin Sonata - 2. Buoyant 7. Crawford: Violin Sonata - 3. Mistico Intense 8. Crawford: Violin Sonata - 4. Allegro 9. Antheil: Sonata #2 For Violin, Piano & Drums 10. Hovhaness: Khirgiz Suite, Op. 73a - 1. Variations 11. Hovhaness: Khirgiz Suite, Op. 73a - 2. A Khirgiz Tale 12. Hovhaness:...
Topic: Other Classical
Source: CD
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Dec 2, 2003
12/03
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Charles Amirkhanian & Anthony Gnazzo
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A collection of collaborative sound pieces for radio by Anthony Gnazzo and Charles Amirkhanian. This program has sensitive language. We hope you are a sensitive listener.
Topics: Sound Poetry, Spoken Word, Electro-Acoustic/Electronic, Anthony Gnazzo, Charles Amirkhanian
Source: Other Minds
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Jul 1, 2016
07/16
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Charles Amirkhanian, Kate Stenberg, Eva-Maria Zimmer; Eva-Maria Zimmer, Kate Stenberg; Kate Stenberg; Kate Stenberg, Eva-Maria Zimmer
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Tracklist: 1. R.B. Smith: Tombeau 2. Hauer: 5 Stücke, Op. 41 - Jazz 3. Cowell: Violin Sonata: Ballade - Eva-Maria Zimmer, Kate Stenberg 4. Amirkhanian: Rippling The Lamp - Kate Stenberg 5. Crawford: Violin Sonata - 1. Vibrante Agitato 6. Crawford: Violin Sonata - 2. Buoyant 7. Crawford: Violin Sonata - 3. Mistico Intense 8. Crawford: Violin Sonata - 4. Allegro 9. Antheil: Sonata #2 For Violin, Piano & Drums - Charles Amirkhanian, Kate Stenberg, Eva-Maria Zimmer 10. Hovhaness: Khirgiz...
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Nov 20, 2003
11/03
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Lou Harrison and Charles Amirkhanian
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Charles Amirkhanian interviews Lou Harrison and Bill Colvig to promote a series of Benefit Concerts scheduled during the summer of 1975 at the Center of World Music (2640 College Ave.). The features and uniqueness of the Center are discussed, and examples of music studied and performed there are presented via recorded music of Javanese gamelan, Chinese pipa, a selection from Harry Partchs The Letter, and a recording of Harrisons Canticle No. 3 composed in 1941 and recorded at KPFK, May 27,...
Source: Other Minds
This program of Elder Statesmen of America include Ernst Bacon, Otto Luening, Leo Ornstein, Dane Rudhyar, Nicholas Slonimsky, Virgil Thomson. Each of these octogenarian began their careers when no recognizable "American" classical music existed. Each of them (as of 1981) still were actively working on their craft. All have, in their individual ways, advanced the cause of modern American music. Producer Charles Amirkhanian traveled the country to collect materials for audio portraits...
Topics: 20th Century Classical, Documentary, Avantgarde
Source: Other Minds
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Feb 17, 2020
02/20
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Charles Amirkhanian; Luca Belcastro; Alzek Misheff; Riccardo Sinigaglia; Giorgio Tedde
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Tracklist: 1. Never Say Die 2. THorowalua 3. Opal 4. Austro 5. West, East 6. U
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Track Listings: Chu Lu Lu Bajanoom Vers Les Anges Gold and Spirit Walking Tune
Topic: Post-Modern Rock
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Feb 24, 2020
02/20
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Charles Amirkhanian; David Gilmour; Erik Satie; Klaus Meine; Camille Saint-Saëns
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Tracklist: 1. Heavy Aspirations 2. Breathe 3. Us and Them 4. Grand Oceanic 5. Gymnopedie #1 6. Scrap Metal 7. Still Loving You 8. Atticus, Atticus... 9. The Swan 10. Message From Another Planet 11. Wind of Change 12. Remembrance of Things Roaring
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Jan 14, 2020
01/20
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Charles Amirkhanian
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Tracklist: 1. Chu Lu Lu 2. Bajanoom 3. Vers Les Anges 4. Gold and Spirit 5. Walking Tune
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The New Consonance Starting in 1969, Charles Amirkhanian was the first radio producer to broadcast substantial quantities of music by first generation minimalist composers. His early interviews with Steve Reich, John Adams, Paul Dresher, Laurie Anderson, Lou Harrison, and others form the basis of this fascinating exigesis of the sea change in contemporary music brought on by the use of consonant harmonies, steady pulse, and hypnotic repetition. But what was the historical artistic context that...
Topics: Avantgarde, Electronic, Documentary, 20th Century Classical
Source: Other Minds
Tracklist: 1. Pavane Pour Une Infante Defunte 2. Blends 3. A Waltz For Evelyn Hinrichsen 4. Paprica 5. Imagem Carioca 6. Glass World (Breathing Machine) 7. Duende (Excerpt) 8. A Serenade For Frank Wigglesworth 9. Backward Bunny Hop 10. Canto (Excerpts) 11. Thermal Conductivity 12. Live At The Meridian (Excerpt) 13. Niger Mambo, From Kephera
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Jan 19, 2018
01/18
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Charles Amirkhanian-Noah Creshevsky
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Tracklist: 1. Charles Amirkhanian: Politics As Usual 2. Noah Creshevsky: Borrowed Time 3. Noah Creshevsky: Private Lives 4. Noah Creshevsky: Coup d'etat
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Charles Amirkhanian talks with one of KPFAs former Music Directors (1953-1960) who left to become music editor of New York Magazine. Mr Rich was in the Bay Area to report on activities of both the San Francisco Opera and the Bay Area Rapid Transit System (BART). He published a book on the future of the orchestra and is the author of Music: Mirror of the Arts. Recorded Saturday, November 11, 1972 in Berkeley.
Topic: 20th Century Classical
Source: Other Minds
Tracklist: 1. R.B. Smith: Tombeau 2. Hauer: 5 Stücke, Op. 41 - Jazz 3. Cowell: Violin Sonata: Ballade - Eva-Maria Zimmer; Kate Stenberg 4. Amirkhanian: Rippling The Lamp - Kate Stenberg 5. Crawford: Violin Sonata - 1. Vibrante Agitato 6. Crawford: Violin Sonata - 2. Buoyant 7. Crawford: Violin Sonata - 3. Mistico Intense 8. Crawford: Violin Sonata - 4. Allegro 9. Antheil: Sonata #2 For Violin, Piano & Drums - Charles Amirkhanian; Kate Stenberg; Eva-Maria Zimmer 10. Hovhaness: Khirgiz...
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Highlights of contemporary music in the City of Angels from the New Music Society of 1925 to New Music America, 1985 a 60 year heritage of profound significance! Henry Cowell, born in Northern California, was the catalyst for all that was new and outrageous in new music in Los Angeles in the 1920s. His October 22, 1925 concert at the Biltmore Hotel there, underwritten by Aileen Barnsdall, is considered the birth of new music in southern California. Music premiered there was critically acclaimed...
Topics: New Music, Documentary, Motion Picture Music
Source: Other Minds
FYLKINGEN: Revolutionary music and technological art center near Stockholm, Sweden. This program deals with the revolutionary music and technological art center near Stockholm, Sweden, called Fylkingen. Included in this program are examples of linguistically-oriented experimental music, called by the Swedes "text-sound compositions." Note: Language Warning Charles Amirkhanian explores the "text-sound" compositions of the forward thinking FYLKINGEN art center. Amirkhanian...
Topics: Sound Poetry, Documentary, Text-Sound Composition
Source: Other Minds
Track Listing: Church Car, Version 2 (1980-81) Dot Bunch (1981) Dog Of Stravinsky (1982) Hypothetical Moments (1981) Maroa (1981) The Putts (1981) Dreams Freud Dreamed (1979) Andas (1982) History Of Collage (1981)
Topic: Other Classical
Source: CD
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Jul 13, 2006
07/06
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Charles Amirkhanian, Richard Friedman & Anthony Gnazzo
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This incurably bizarre program, somewhat reminiscent of John Cage's Indeterminacy, begins with "I had a hankering to shoot pins at Bartok." It features a mix of pre-recorded electronic and radio drama sound sources mixed with tape delay under readings of experimental texts by Charles Amirkhanian read by Carol Law, Anthony J. Gnazzo and Amirkhanian himself. Performed live in the KPFA studios, the writing is influenced by William Burroughs, Clark Coolidge, and Fluxus happenings artists...
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Topics: Sound poetry, Anthony Gnazzo, Richard Friedman, Carol Law, Charles Amirkhanian, Fluxus,...
Tracklist: 1. Church Car, Version 2 2. Dot Bunch 3. Dog of Stravinsky 4. Hypothetical Moments 5. Maroa 6. The Putts 7. Dreams Freud Dreamed 8. Andas 9. History of Collage
Topic: Other Classical
Source: CD
This performance was recorded at The Dancers Workshop, 321 Divisadero Street, in San Francisco, September 21, 1968. The occasion was the premiere of this theatre piece (by Charles Amirkhanian) which was based on a single major design. From a balcony, located fifteen feet above the floor of a gymnasium-like studio, objects were dropped down onto the floor for the entire duration of the piece. The audience was seated in a horseshoe formation around the area into which objects were dropped. These...
Topics: Inter-Media and Visual Arts, Performance Art, Electronic music, Inter-media art
Son of Metropolis San Francisco (1986; 1997) by composer Charles Amirkhanian performed at the 11th Other Minds Music Festival at San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. OM11 presents a 60th birthday tribute to Other Minds founding artistic director Charles Amirkhanian, featuring the San Francisco concert premiere of his radiophonic tape piece, Son of Metropolis San Francisco. The work is a part-abstract, part-representational audio snapshot of idiosyncratic Bay Area sounds, ranging...
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Topics: tape collage, musique concrete, Concrete Music
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Beginning in 1972, KPFA Radio broadcast weekly on Friday nights over high quality phone lines from a lovely home in North Berkeley owned by baritone singer Thomas Buckner. The address and name of the concert hall and record company was 1750 Arch Street, and many brilliant composers and performers made this 49-seat hall the place to be in Northern California to hear classical music of all periods with an emphasis on the contemporary. This evening-length broadcast featured works by composer...
Topics: Sound Poetry, Spoken Word, KPFA-FM, Charles Amirkhanian, 1750 Arch Street
Source: Other Minds
Compositions which fall between the media of music and poetry. Includes Radii, EEYvYUSS, Dactl Dactl Mther Mther Mther Bongg Bongg Frgid, Each'll, Sniro and If In Is. A March 29, 1972 KPFA broadcast, just before Amirkhanian's first trip to Europe where he worked in the studios of Swedish Radio, courtesy of Fylkingen, to make works for the 5th annual festival of text-sound composition. Please note: the commentary track is deliberately altered and treated itself as a compositional element of the...
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Topics: Sound Poetry, Avantgarde
Source: Other Minds
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Mar 20, 2015
03/15
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Alzek Misheff; Charles Amirkhanian; Giorgio Tedde; Riccardo Sinigaglia; Rocco Parisi
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Track Listing: 01 - Charles Amirkhanian - Never Say Die 02 - Rocco Parisi - Thorowalua 03 - Riccardo Sinigaglia - OPal ! 04 - Giorgio Tedde - Austro 05 - Alzek Misheff - West, East 06 - Alzek Misheff - U
Topics: Classical, Compilation
Source: CD
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Nov 20, 2003
11/03
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Charles Amirkhanian & Brian Eno
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Charles Amirkhanian and Brian Eno discuss Phonetic Poetry, how Brian writes his lyrics, and the spirit of inquisitiveness at KPFA Radio on Saturday February 2, 1980. Listen to some of Brian Enos pieces; After the Heat, Everything Merges With the Night, Another Green World, Spirits Drifting and sections of other pieces. Brian Eno also discusses the artist Peter Schmidt and their work on the Oblique Strategies Cards, being a producer, Process vs Product and looping. Reel I ends with some thoughts...
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Topics: KPFA-FM, Ode to Gravity series, Interview and Music, New Music, Popular Music, Brian Eno
Source: Other Minds
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Jun 26, 2019
06/19
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Various Artists; Charles Amirkhanian; Milton Babbitt; Randolph Hostetler; Richard Swift
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Tracklist: 1. Happily Ever After - Randolph Hostetler 2. Arie da Capo - Milton Babbitt 3. Prime - Richard Swift 4. Pas de voix (Portrait of Samuel Beckett) - Charles Amirkhanian
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Jan 28, 2020
01/20
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Charles Amirkhanian
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Tracklist: 1. Mugic 2. Seatbelt Seatbelt 3. Dutiful Ducks 4. Muchrooms 5. Mahogany Ballpark 6. She She And She
Topic: Bebop & Modern Jazz
Source: CD
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Oct 7, 2004
10/04
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Maro Ajemian, Charles Amirkhanian, Richard Friedman
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Ode To Gravity with Charles Amirkhanian, A Visit With Maro Ajemian (August 26, 1970). Internationally renowned pianist Maro Ajemian, her husband Lionel Galstaun, and KPFA's Richard Friedman and Charles Amirkhanian discuss the music of Komitas (1869-1935), an Armenian composer, performer, and musicologist, whose compositions are based on folk tunes of Armenia and set in the modes, rhythms, and harmonies of Eastern rather than Western (e.g. Khachaturian) composition. Examples of piano works and...
Topics: Folk, 20th Century Classical, Radio Shows
Source: Other Minds
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Jun 4, 2004
06/04
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Lou Harrison, Bill Colvig, Charles Amirkhanian
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Charles Amirkhanian talks with one of America's most distinguished composers, Lou Harrison, whose use of gamelan instruments and interest in other musics of the world helped bring an appreciation of Pacific and Asian music to the U.S. William Colvig has collaborated with Harrison for many years, building original and gamelan-inspired instruments. The program begins with Eric Marin's film documenting Harrison & Colvig, and continues with excerpts from Harrison's Piano Concerto (featuring...
Topics: Interview and Music, Unconventional Instruments, New Music
Source: Other Minds
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Aug 31, 2019
08/19
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Kate Stenberg, Eva-Maria Zimmer; Charles Amirkhanian, Kate Stenberg, Eva-Maria Zimmer; Eva-Maria Zimmer, Kate Stenberg; Kate Stenberg
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Tracklist: 1. R.B. Smith: Tombeau 2. Hauer: 5 Stücke, Op. 41 - Jazz 3. Cowell: Violin Sonata: Ballade - Eva-Maria Zimmer, Kate Stenberg 4. Amirkhanian: Rippling The Lamp - Kate Stenberg 5. Crawford: Violin Sonata - 1. Vibrante Agitato 6. Crawford: Violin Sonata - 2. Buoyant 7. Crawford: Violin Sonata - 3. Mistico Intense 8. Crawford: Violin Sonata - 4. Allegro 9. Antheil: Sonata #2 For Violin, Piano & Drums - Charles Amirkhanian, Kate Stenberg, Eva-Maria Zimmer 10. Hovhaness: Khirgiz...
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Jan 22, 2020
01/20
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Various Artists; Charles Amirkhanian; Dälek; Eve Beglarian; John Oswald; Laetitia Sonami; Nobukazu Takeura; Paul Lansky; Phil Kline; R. Luke DuBois; Scanner; Tod Machover
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Tracklist: 1. Mixed Messiah - Tod Machover 2. Insulation Mix - Scanner 3. Mqsical Lou - Charles Amirkhanian 4. Convolution - R. Luke DuBois 5. Assembler Mix - Nobukazu Takeura 6. Hallelujah! - Phil Kline 7. Post-Pastoral - Paul Lansky 8. Overture On Ice - Laetitia Sonami 9. Be/Hold - Eve Beglarian 10. Messiah (deadverse remix) - Dälek 11. Partial - John Oswald
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Sep 5, 2019
09/19
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Various Artists; Anthony Gnazzo; Aram Saroyan; Beth Anderson; Brion Gysin; Charles Amirkhanian; Charles Dodge; Clark Coolidge; John Cage; John Giorno; Liam O'Gallagher; Robert Ashley
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Tracklist: 1. Just (1972) - Charles Amirkhanian 2. Heavy Aspirations (1973) - Charles Amirkhanian 3. Preface (1968 - Excerpt) - Clark Coolidge 4. 62 Mesostics Re Merce Cunningham (1971; Jack Briece, vocalist) - John Cage 5. Give It To Me, Baby (1967) - John Giorno 6. The Population Explosion (1969) - Anthony Gnazzo 7. Speech Songs (1973 - Excerpt: No. 1. When I Am With You) - Charles Dodge 8. Speech Songs (1973 - Excerpt: No. 2. He Destroyed Her Image) - Charles Dodge 9. In Sara, Mencken,...
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Track Listing: Charles Amirkhanian: Politics As Usual Noah Creshevsky: Borrowed Time Noah Creshevsky: Private Lives Noah Creshevsky: Coup d'etat
Topic: Other Classical
Source: CD
An original text-sound composition by Charles Amirkhanian, produced at the KPFA studios with the sounds of the voice of Lou Harrison, recorded in his home in Aptos, CA, by KPFA Chief Engineer George Craig. Amirkhanian composed a cut-up text in Esperanto, a favorite language of Harrison's. Many of the phrases were taken from a contemporary newspaper in that international language. Also intruding from time to time are ambient sounds of Mr. Harrison's household. The original monaural field...
Topics: Sound Poetry, Avantgarde
Source: Other Minds
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Jan 6, 2018
01/18
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Charles Amirkhanian; Dean Witten; Joseph Lukasik; Pamela Z; Paul Dresher; Phillip Bimstein; Tod Dockstader
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Tracklist: 1. Luna Park (Excerpt) - Tod Dockstader 2. Part Three from Apocalypse - Tod Dockstader 3. Tango from Quatermass - Tod Dockstader 4. Underground - Paul Dresher 5. The Rider - Dean Witten 6. Utamaro's Dreams (excerpt) - Joseph Lukasik 7. In Tymes of Olde - Pamela Z 8. Obsession, Addiction and the Aristotelian Curve - Pamela Z 9. Vers Les Anges - Charles Amirkhanian 10. Garland Hirschi's Cows - Phillip Bimstein
Topic: Compilation
Source: CD
Charles Amirkhanian traces developments in 20th Century text-sound composition, including recorded examples by such historical figures as Kurt Schwitters, Raoul Hausmann, Ernst Toch, Gertrude Stein, Mauricio Lemaitre, François Dufrene and Henri Chopin. More modern examples of American work follows. Production of this program funded by the Berkeley Civic Arts Commission.
Topics: Sound Poetry, Documentary, Electro-Acoustic/Electronic
Source: Other Minds
